From the Portland Mercury, October 22, 2014 As expected, the Portland City Council tonight has agreed to pursue a narrowly framed, but potentially troublesome appeal of the city’s police reform agreement with the US Department of Justice—casting aside advocates’ and lawyers’ insistent concerns that doing so would shatter their sense of trust in city hall. […]
From the Portland Mercury, October 22, 2014 The legal drama over police reform in Portland—seemingly put to rest in August, when a federal judge finally approved the city’s nearly two-year-old settlement agreement with the US Department of Justice—has been revived. On Wednesday, October 22, Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioner Amanda Fritz will ask their colleagues […]
The Portland Mercury, March 26, 2014 Earlier this year, Police Chief Mike Reese began showing off a flashy PowerPoint presentation around town. To the district attorney’s office, to city commissioners and, most publicly, to the city and county officials gathered for a meeting of the Local Public Safety Coordinating Council (LPSCC), Reese introduced “Prosper Portland,” […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Oct. 29, 2013 Reaction was mixed Tuesday, a day after Portland’s city auditor sent a blistering memo to the mayor and city council members identifying “alarming lapses” in police accountability by top police command staff. READ – City Auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade’s memo (PDF, 72KB) READ – MHAP’s written testimony before […]
By Helen Silvis, The Skanner, Oct. 23, 2013 Portland City Council deferred a decision on a string of proposals from the auditor’s office to make changes to the Independent Police Review Division. The council will address the proposals Dec. 4 after more study. Constantin Severe, IPR director, introduced the new proposals, which include: giving the […]
From The Portland Mercury, August 28, 2013 Commissioner Dan Saltzman‘s rapid education as the new overseer of the Portland Housing Bureau is continuing apace. After taking flak in a Mercury story this week for letting Mayor Charlie Hales drive a seemingly big-stick-tiny-carrot approach to homelessness—and talking up an idea, $250,000 for shelters, that better-versed advocates […]
Mayor Charlie Hales: We’re using a measured approach to take back Portland’s sidewalks By Charlie Hales, Guest Column in The Oregonian, August 14, 2013 Lawlessness on Portland sidewalks is not a new issue, nor is it an easy one. So this summer, we crafted a plan to address lawlessness on the public right-of-way. The plan […]
By Denis C. Theriault, The Portland Mercury, August 14, 2013 Mayor Charlie Hales, as of this afternoon, has now had three informal meetings with business interests, law enforcement, and social services providers to get up to speed on homelessness—a difficult subject he announced he’d be taking on during his State of the City speech this […]
By Ryan Kost, The Oregonian, June 3, 2013 After months of keeping all of the city’s bureaus for himself, Portland Mayor Charlie Hales reassigned them late Monday, doling out major assignments to every commissioner while scrambling them considerably from where they were before he took office. With the budget approved last Wednesday, Hales was finally […]
By Steve Duin, The Oregonian, May 6, 2013 In chopping CATC — the Crisis Assessment Treatment Center — off at the knees, Mayor Charlie Hales is only looking to finish what the Portland police started. What remains to be seen is whether the cops’ stubbornness about the mental health facility is driving (a) the city’s […]
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